All Henri Bergson Quotes
- Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization. Appeal
- When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand… Altered
- There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now… According
- Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. Force
- Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… Absolute
- I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other,… Able
- Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… Astonishing
- Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. Group
- All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one… Add
- Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method… Apply
- When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images… Action
- Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. Adequately
- We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work… Action
- The vital spirit. L'élan vital Funny
- Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus… Action
- ... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself. Belonging
- The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. Counts
- An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by… Absolute
- It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ...… Both
- In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and… Artificial
- One can always reason with reason. Always Reason
- Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. Contact
- The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. Gods
- ...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want… All
- Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war. Condition